Carla N. Giammichele

Carla N. Giammichele is the principal attorney of Giammichele Law, PLLC, in Ithaca, New York. Her practice encompasses divorce, family law, employee retirement benefits, and disputes involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA. She represents clients confronting financial questions in divorce and assists with the treatment of pension and other retirement benefits when a marriage ends. Her work combines family-law guidance with benefits-related experience.

Giammichele earned her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. from Binghamton University. She developed experience with ERISA matters during law school and later worked with firms representing union-side trustees of multiemployer pension and welfare funds. This education and early professional work established a foundation for handling both matrimonial financial disputes and complex employee-benefit questions.

Her divorce work addresses support, child custody, marital assets, and cases involving difficult financial circumstances. She also helps clients identify retirement plan benefits, obtain plan information, and prepare Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, commonly called QDROs. In employee-benefit disputes, her experience extends to plan claims, administrative appeals, and litigation involving benefit plans and insurers. She established her own practice in 2013 after handling ERISA matters at other firms.

Carla N. Giammichele has served as president of the Tompkins County Bar Association and belongs to the New York State Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York. Her work bridges the financial and legal issues that can arise when family relationships change. She helps clients address divorce-related obligations and retirement arrangements with attention to the specific requirements of benefits law.

Law Office Affiliations

• Principal, Giammichele Law, PLLC
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• Washington College of Law at American University
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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